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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?
(a) Don’t be obtuse
(b) It doesn’t make it easier for me
(c) That’s cowardly
(d) I’m leaving

2. The narrator says of Harry’s female companion that she “loved him dearly as a writer, as a man, as a companion and as” what?
(a) A husband
(b) A proud possession
(c) A humble servant
(d) A provider

3. The narrator says of Harry in the story, “Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because” of what reason?
(a) It was starving to death
(b) Its back was broken
(c) It feared itself
(d) It was cold

4. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?
(a) Wine parlor
(b) Ski school
(c) Butcher
(d) Hot dog stand

5. How are the flashbacks into Harry’s past delineated from the rest of the narrative in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) They are in parentheses
(b) They are italicized
(c) They are in quotations
(d) They are in boldface

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?

2. Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “You can’t die if you don’t” what?

3. Of Harry’s companion, the narrator says, “She loved anything that was exciting, that involved a change of scene, where there were new people and where things were” what?

4. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?

5. Who is described as Harry’s “femme de ménage” in his descriptions of Paris while dictating to his companion?

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